One Stamp Five Ways: Floral Mix Background

Hi friends! Happy Saturday and happy STAMPtember® eve! I hope you’re as excited as we are for all of the festivities starting tomorrow! Please join us in welcoming back special guest Suzy Plantamura with her popular One Stamp, Five Ways blog series! Read on for more info and enjoy!

One Stamp Five Ways: Floral Mix Background

Today I have a “One Stamp, Five Ways” post for you using one of the gorgeous background stamps by Simon Says Stamp called Floral Mix Background.  I love the series of stamps and now background stamps using these gorgeous florals with little dashed lines throughout.Not only are they super pretty, they are really fun to color too! I also used another stamp set for almost all of my greetings on these cards, so this is really a two stamp, five ways post!  

One Stamp Five Ways: Floral Mix Background

I stamped the Floral Mix Background stamp on Ranger Watercolor Paper with white embossing powder. I painted over the embossed stamp design with blue and purple watercolors using a wet on wet technique.

One Stamp Five Ways: Floral Mix Background

I then used a layer of Liquid Pixie Dust over the top of the paint. You can use it by itself for lots of sheen or you can mix it into your watercolors. I love this stuff! It’s like the glimmer pens inside a bottle! And this photo doesn’t even do it justice as it is so shimmery in person!

One Stamp Five Ways: Floral Mix Background

I die-cut the Peeking Butterfly Wafer Die out of white cardstock. I colored the inside piece with three colors of purple Copic Markers moving from light on top to darker on the bottom. I die-cut a second one and layered that over the first one turning up one of the butterfly wings. I covered the butterfly with Glossy Accents and white glitter. I added some white jewels.

One Stamp Five Ways: Floral Mix Background

This time I stamped the Floral Mix Background stamp with black ink on white cardstock. I then colored it in with a very bright mix of colored pencils. Copic Markers would look good for this technique as well since they come in some very bright colors.

One Stamp Five Ways: Floral Mix Background

I stamped the“Happy Birthday” sentiment from the Greeting Mix 1 stamp set with black ink on a Sentiment Label Die. I layered that over the front of the card and trimmed off the right edge. I added some Watermelon Jewels on the right side.

One Stamp Five Ways: Floral Mix Background

Last, I took this card up a notch by covering many of the colored areas with Tonic Nuvo Glitter Drops. They add so much sheen to this already bright card! I used Glossy White drops over the background.

One Stamp Five Ways: Floral Mix Background

This time I stamped the Floral Background Stamp with black ink on white cardstock and colored it in with Copic Markers. I used colored pencils to add additional shading.

One Stamp Five Ways: Floral Mix Background

I die-cut the It’s Your Day Wafer Die out of Lawn Fawn Guava cardstock (my new favorite color) and white cardstock. I layered them on the front of the card using the white inside the letters. I added some Glossy White Nuvo Drops around the die.

One Stamp Five Ways: Floral Mix Background

This just shows a close up of the flowers, but no more directions here! My daughter colored this with Copics for me, so she shades a little different than I do. I think she does a beautiful job and I always appreciate her help!

One Stamp Five Ways: Floral Mix Background

This time I wanted a no-line stamping look, so I stamped the Floral Background Stamp with a light color of ink on white cardstock. I colored the flowers in with colored pencils.

One Stamp Five Ways: Floral Mix Background

I used darker shades of the pencils to add the little dashed lines over the flowers and leaves. I have no idea why that one green leaf has a brown dashed line – Imust have been tired!

One Stamp Five Ways: Floral Mix Background

I layered three different sentiments from the Greetings Mix 1 stamp set.  I stamped the largest one in black ink on a watercolored banner. Then I stamped the smaller text on a white banner using the Sentiment Label dies. I stamped the last one on a small circle die. I added some Watermelon jewels to finish the card.

One Stamp Five Ways: Floral Mix Background

For this card, I started by stamping the Outline Leaves background stamp on white cardstock with a light color of ink and then I colored the leaves in with colored pencils. I thought I would try cutting some of the flowers out of this stamped image and these leaves were perfect for a background for the flowers.

One Stamp Five Ways: Floral Mix Background

I stamped a sentiment from the Greetings Mix 1 stamp set with Leaf Green embossing powder on a stitched square die. I attached that to the front of the card and used some Golden Sunset Glitter Nuvo Drops.

One Stamp Five Ways: Floral Mix Background

I stamped the full Floral Mix Background Stamp on white cardstock with a light color of ink and I colored in just the three sunflower stamps with colored pencils. Ithen cut them out. Because I used a light color of ink, the lines of the otherflowers didn’t show up very much and I used a white Uniball gel pen to cover up the ink that did show. I used Golden Sunset Glitter Nuvo Drops to decorate the inside of the flowers.

Thanks so much for visiting the SSS blog today. I always enjoy sharing these “one stamp, five ways” posts with you. I hope you are motivated to pull out one of your stamp sets and try to come up with five ways to use it! Happy crafting friends! -Suzy

SUPPLIES:

Simon Says Cling Rubber Stamp FLORAL…
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Simon Says Clear Stamps GREETINGS MIX…
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Simon Says Stamp Peeking BUTTERFLY…
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Simon Says Stamp IT’S YOUR DAY Wafer…
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Simon Says Cling Rubber Stamp OUTLINE…
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Simon Says Stamp SENTIMENT LABELS…
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Simon Says Stamp STITCHED SQUARES…
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Simon Says Stamp Embossing Ink Pad…
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Simon Says Stamp Premium Ink Pad…
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Pretty Pink Posh WATERMELON Jewels
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Pretty Pink Posh PEARL WHITE Jewels
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Simon Says Stamp EMBOSSING POWDER…
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Ranger WATERCOLOR PAPER Inkssentials…
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Ranger MINI GLOSSY ACCENTS Glue…
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Ranger Wendy Vecchi Embossing Powder…
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Copic Sketch Marker BV0000 PALE…
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Copic Sketch Marker BV000 IRIDESCENT…
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Copic Sketch Marker BV00 MAUVE SHADOW
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Copic Sketch Marker R35 CORAL
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Copic Sketch Marker R29 LIPSTICK RED…
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Copic Sketch Marker R32 PEACH
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Copic Sketch Marker R20 BLUSH Pink…
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Copic Sketch Marker Y08 ACID YELLOW…
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Copic Sketch Marker Y19 NAPOLI YELLOW…
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Copic Sketch Marker Y38 HONEY Bright…
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Copic Sketch Marker G40 DIM GREEN…
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Copic Sketch Marker G43 PISTACHIO…
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Copic Sketch MARKER Y11 PALE YELLOW
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Faber-Castell POLYCHROMOS COLORED…
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Prismacolor PREMIER COLORED PENCILS…
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Daniel Smith ULTIMATE MIXING Hand…
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Tonic WHITE BLIZZARD Nuvo Glitter…
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Tonic BLUE LAGOON Nuvo Glitter Drops…
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Tonic GLOSS SIMPLY WHITE Nuvo Crystal…
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Tonic SHERBET SHIMMER Nuvo Glitter…
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Tonic YELLOW BIRD Nuvo Glitter Drops…
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Tonic SUNLIT MEADOW Nuvo Glitter…
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Tonic GOLDEN SUNSET Nuvo Glitter…
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Neenah Classic Crest 110 LB SMOOTH…
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My Favorite Things NATURAL Hybrid Ink…
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Inkon3 LIQUID PIXIE DUST Ultra Fine…
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Lawn Fawn LARGE STITCHED 4 BAR…
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Lawn Fawn GUAVA Cardstock LF1117
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Lawn Fawn JUST STITCHING DOUBLE…
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Uni-Ball Pen Signo Gel WHITE UM-153
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Thanks so much for stopping by and thanks to Suzy for being our guest!

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  1. These posts are always so insightful when you highlight the various media you use for coloring. Thanks for sharing your creativity.

  2. Beautiful cards! So neat to see all the beautiful different looks that can be created with one amazing stamp!

  3. Beautiful cards and amazing coloring. I like to see how you use different mediums. Thanks for the inspiration.

  4. Suzy’s one stamp set 5 ways is one of my all time favorite design segments in all of the stamping land! I just love her work. I can not duplicate it in any way, but I absolutely relish seeing it! Thank you!

  5. These cards are gorgeous! My favorite medium is watercolor but your pencil and Copic coloring is so beautiful too. Love that background stamp!

  6. So much good info. Love the colors in this particular post AND the ideas. Being able to use my stamps in a variety of ways just makes me happy!

  7. Suzy, your cards are absolutely gorgeous, including the one your daughter did!! I think this Floral Background stamp is one I should have in my stash as you’ve shown just how versatile it can be. Thanks so much!

  8. Stunning cards Suzy. It is that I know that it’s one stamp otherwise I wouldn’t believe it. What a great range of different cards did you make!
    Thank you so much for sharing your awesome inspriation.

  9. Wow!! These are all so gorgeous!! Amazing the different looks you achieved using the exact same stamp! I think the blue and purple card is my favorite!

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